John Cage’s 4’33” explained. 

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That was dark 🦍

he hears this all the time

Yeah yeah. Rock and roll and all that bs

stinky music

Poopy sounds

Definitely Funk

TMI…

Me too

I believe the better analogy would be switching the canvas to a glass, to see the landscape in front of you

@@dwillerdAnother would be to leave the canvas out on a busy street in rainy weather, or on the ground in the woods. Circumstance, eventuality, and intent is what Cage was trying to explain with this work.

@@requiemsama Good one, I think yours fits better with the piece!

@@dwillerd I like yours too. Like with Cage’s mind, interpretation is tantamount.

Same lol

Because it's not about the concept of a silent piece, it's about the intention. That first silent composition from 1897 was meant as a joke. Other silent pieces that appeared before John Cage's had other intentions or meanings. But none before had the intention of making us attentive to the sounds around us, to our "silence" that isn't actually silence. It confronts us with the sounds around you. The hums, chirps and all the other noises that you would normally ignore. That is your "silence". Being aware of that, listening to all the sounds as they are, no just ones that are supposed to have meaning. And, maybe, make us more aware of the sounds in our everyday lives. No other silent piece prior to 4'33'' had that thought-provoking intention.

@@ikego98 I witnessed a performance of the Schulhoff silent piece and the pianist conducted himself. It was hilarious. He exaggerated dynamics and fermatas. I thought his performance was very imaginative and it comes in the middle of the suite, so it stood out. I wonder if Cage knew any of those previous silent works? This piece is also in three movements and most “listeners” aren’t aware of that.

Truth

I think you lack the ability to see art in everyday things. The point of this piece is to help you realize that.

Your mad over nothing, you are mad of the lack of things, it infuriates you and your mad its different.

Still better than Schoenberg tbh.

​@@andrzejszpak688how about we stop doing bullshit, making pretentious reflections over it and call it music

Perhaps the very definition of music might also change with time, I believe most of the things are not fixed or constant, they might change with time and I think changes should happen in this world as time progresses otherwise to me atleast the world will be a boring place to live in..

And yet there are sounds from our surroundings and also sounds almost all of which most of us might consider "Silence" is their in 4'33"..

The fact it's called a "piece" is even more insulting

@@hippopotomostrosesquippeda5804 😂😂, yeah

No, the point is that the wall IS in a national gallery already (or somewhere alike). It's not the walls in our living rooms that counts as art but the ones displayed at the museum. According to Cage, art is an event, and without this public or spectacular element, so to say, it is just an ordinary everyday object. At the moment when we as a society gather around it, observe it, contemplate upon it, discuss it, or appreciate it - in other words, once we place an object in an artistic context - it becomes art. Art is thus our relationship to something, not the thing in itself.